Education
of Korea University.
黃永祚
long-distance runner athletics competitor
of Korea University.
The Barcelona Olympic marathon was only fourth of his career. In Barcelona, Hwang was in the leading pack from the start, but in a slowly run race, this group still numbered thirty runners at the halfway mark. However, runners gradually lost contact with the leaders in the second half of the race, until at 35 km, only Hwang and Koichi Morishita from Japan remained.
Hwang raced sparingly after Barcelona, and he retired after injury prevented him from representing South of Korea in the 1996 Olympics.
Hwang was depicted on the 2006 Berlin Marathon medal to commemorate his victory in the Olympic marathon event.
Hwang has been one of two Korean athletes to win the Olympic marathon. The other winner was Sohn Kee-chung. Hwang"s contemporary South Korean athlete Lee Bong-Ju won the silver medal in the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, and Nam Sung-yong won the bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin at the same race that Sohn Kee-chung won. 1991 Summer Universiade, winner of the men"s marathon in Sheffield. 1992 Summer Olympics, winner of the men"s marathon in Barcelona. 1994 Asian Games, winner of the men"s marathon in Hiroshima. Boston Marathon, fourth place in a new Korean record (2:08:09).
